Help your students report questions that have been asked by using reported speech and if or whether. Students practice rewriting quoted (direct) speech into reported (indirect) speech. Open and closed questions are also reviewed.
Reported Speech using Asked, If, and Whether
Overview
BusinessWork
Level Intermediate: B1
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3 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 90 mins
Language functions Talking about the past
Language forms Past forms
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Correct the mistakesQuestions and answersReadingRewritingWriting
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